Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President continued: "America joins with all believers of every faith in a prayer of thanks and a plea that, whatever lies ahead, we may be strong and courageous and wise in the doing of our own tasks in accord with the Divine Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
...Democratic Senator J. W. FULBRIGHT, in the biweekly Reporter: THE President wishes to develop a bipartisan foreign policy in the Eighty-Fourth Congress. Without being unduly partisan, I feel that this desire for bipartisanship, although welcome, is a bit sudden. It is not easy, nor would it be wise, for Democrats to forget the appalling degree of venom shown by the Republicans during the campaign. Bipartisanship in foreign policy requires the exercise of restraint in a field where demagogy is inviting and comes easy. It is an ancient practice and a large temptation to exploit people's local prejudices...
...president and thinker-in-chief Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. A lanky, ingratiating man of 45 who towers (6 ft. 4 in.) above his L-shaped desk. Weaver talks in a cascade of nonstop sentences that sometimes sound like high-flown doubletalk. Sample: "Speaking communications-wise, you believe that in order to have pride and the creative restlessness, your social responsibility as management is to see that every opportunity is used to expose people to things in which they have expressed no interest, but in which, you as an information optimist are committed to believe, they would have expressed interest...
Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...
...Wise Up. Next morning the crowds were still milling through the star-punctured house, and telegrams and phone calls were streaming into Sylacauga. Scientists begged the Hodges not to damage the meteorite. Lawyer Love, asking $5,000 for it, reported that agents of a Muncie, Ind. munitions manufacturer were flying to Sylacauga to outbid everyone else. The Smithsonian in Washington was interested too, but was not talking serious money. Mayor Howard declared that the meteorite would eventually come to rest in the State Museum of Natural History. Hewlett Hodges felt otherwise. "The mayor," he said, "had better wise...